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which the following is a specilication.

UNITED STATES ALEXANDER F. BUCHANAN,

PATENT OFFICE.

OE MONTROSE, NEw YORK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 276,765, dated May 1, 1883.

Application led March 30,1883. (Specimens.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER F. BU- CHANAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Montrose, Westchester county, New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Oil-Cloth, of

This invention consists in the novel process and apparatus hereinafter described for decorating oil-cloth in imitation of wainscoting, and also inthe article thus obtained as a new manufacture.

In the accompanyingdrawings, Figure 1 represents a sectional side elevation of the apparatus used in carrying out my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the daubing-troughs. Fig. 3 shows a piece of the oil-cloth.

Similar letters indicate similar parts.

In carrying out myinvention I expose a traveling web, A, of plain cloth, to the action of aseries ot' daubiug devices, B, which are supplied with wood-colors of diierent shades, so that the web becomes coated with such coli ors in parallel lines or sections corresponding in width to the daubing devices. I then dry the colors and usually repeat the operation of applying and drying the same one or more times, when I grain the entire coated surface of the web by a suitable color in imitation of any certain species of wood. '1 then dry the graining-color and varnish the coated and grained surface, when the cloth is ready for use.

It willbe seen that by this process, which is an extremely simple and cheap one, I impart to the surface of the cloth the appearance of strips of wood ofone and the same species, but of different shades, as in Vwainscotiug, which renders the article highly useful for paueling and other purposes, it also possessing the important feature of being readily cleaned.

The daubing devices B consist of troughs which are open at the bottom and arranged side by side, so that the colors that may be contained in the troughs escape therefrom in a downward direction, and are applied to the cloth by simply passing the web under the troughs. Each of said troughs B isezqianded` in a horizontal plane toward 4the "rear, edge,"

example correspond to each other.

where the troughs meet, as shown in Fig. 2, so that the lines or divisions produced on the web are separated from each other at thejunctions of the troughs in sharp or clearly-defined lines, the widths of said lines being equal to the widest parts of the troughs, which in this On the rear edge of the daubing-troughs B is arranged a blade, C, which acts as a doctor77 to spread the colors which are deposited on the cloth in an even layer, such blade being common to the series of troughs.

For the purpose of impelling the web of cloth I make use ot' a drag-roller, D, which is above the horizontal plane ofthe troughs, and to guide the web under the troughs I employ a roller, E, which is also a brake-roller and couuteracts the drag-roller.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The within-described process for decorating oil-cloth, which consists in exposing a traveling web of plain cloth to the action ot' a series of daubing devices containing wood-colors of different shades, thus coating the web in parallel linesV or sections with such colors, then drying the colors and graining the entire coated surface of the web by a suitable color in imitation of wood, then drying the graining-color, andnally varnishing the coated and grained surface.

2. The open-bottom daubing troughs arranged side by side, and each expanded horizontally toward therearedge,where the troughs meet, in combination with the spreadin g-blade common to the series of troughs, and suitable rollers for guiding and impelling a web of cloth under said troughs and blade.

3. Asa new or improved manufacture, the oil-cloth herein described, having its surface decorated in imitation of strips of wood of one and the same species, but of different shades.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

` ALEXANDER F. BUCHANAN. Witnesses: E. C. SANDEOED,

W. HAUEE. 

